Kids' book picks: 'The Mighty Miss Malone'

Published: Friday, January 11, 2013 at 3:15 a.m.

Last Modified: Wednesday, January 9, 2013 at 8:53 p.m.

Children

“The Mighty Miss Malone” by Christopher Paul Curtis. With love and determination befitting the “world’s greatest family,” 12-year-old Deza Malone, her older brother Jimmie and their parents endure tough times in Gary, Ind., and later Flint, Mich., during the Great Depression.

Teens

“Midnight City” by J. Barton Mitchell. Earth has been conquered by an alien race known as the Assembly. The human adult population is gone, having succumbed to the Tone — a powerful, telepathic super signal broadcast across the planet that reduces them to a state of complete subservience. But the Tone has one critical flaw. It only affects the population once they reach their early twenties, which means that there is one group left to resist: Children.

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